NEWS

Air at public places badly polluted

Source: Economic Times, Date: December , 2014

The air you are
breathing through the day may be far worse than what the government's pollution
monitoring tells you. Because we often spend long hours near emission sources -
on footpaths, along heavily congested roads, in an auto rickshaw in peak traffic
and even in parks during morning walks. To assess what our real exposure may be
like, TOI, in association with Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), spent
a day monitoring hourly PM 2.5 (fine, reparable particles) on CSE's portable
air quality monitoring device in front of schools, hospitals, shopping areas
and traffic cop booths.